<VV> When is a Corvair Wagon not Stock?

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A LM 2door wagon has already been done. Maybe not exactly in a Nomad style
(remember that a Nomad is a 2door sedan/wagon but with hardtop doors), but
using a LM 2door coupe with a Hornet Sportabout greenhouse grafted on.

I've seen the following custom-bodied (EM and LM) Corvairs done: El Camino,
Nomad, shortened coupe, shortened convertable, AND stretched EM wagon,
shortened EM wagon,  LM limo, and LM 4door convertible. Maybe more
variations than that, that I've forgotten. Most everything you can think of
has been done.

But that's why I'm working on a LM 4door wagon. It (to my knowledge) has
NEVER been done. And I'm leaving it as a HARDTOP wagon! That body style was
produced only back in the late '50's and early '60's, and is therefore even
harder to find. And it's the most logical variant the factory would have
built, had they opted for a fourth body style. That's also why I'm going to
stick close to the stock look, rather than a blatent custom car look. No
custom fender flairs, no aftermarket fender skirts (UGH!), no
conversion-van paint jobs, no houndstooth cloth upholstery. Just strictly
what the factory logically would have offered. A pure "what-if"
production-style concept car.

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> When is a Corvair Wagon not Stock?
>
> >Oh, hey. Why use a 2door sedan, when it would be even more fun to do that
> >with a 4door sedan? 
> >
>
> I know the above is a jab at 2 vs. 4, but talking along these lines, IF 
> I was going to make a Late Wagon, since we are talking "make", I sure 
> would make it Nomad style, starting with a 2-door ...
>
> Sure don't see anybody reproducing 4-door wagons -- 
> http://superior54.com/ -- I'd really love the idea of an early 2-door 
> wagon  (maybe, someday ...)
>